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I experimented a bit last night and again this morning trying to understand the process and created books to use as an example and to test the program capabilities. This will be a multi-blog post effort because of the many steps required.

To start the Book building process, the user needs to start with a person. I highlighted my grandfather, Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in the "People" workspace:

I clicked on the "Publish" workspace button, and then on the "Book" item in the "Collection list:"

I selected the "Genealogy Report" d was prompted to name the Book in the screen above.

After entering the name of my book, the Title Page appeared with the title. I added a photograph of my grandfather (using Insert > Image from Media Collection) for the Title Page and added the author's name and the copyright information. The Title Page is shown below:

If I wanted to add an Introduction or a Preface after the Ttitle Page, I could have added more pages of text or media.

For my book, I wanted to include a Pedigree Chart and an Ancestral Family Report for Four Generations of ancestors. I clicked the "Plus" sign in the left panel of the screen above - that is to Add an item to the book. The Collection list appears, and I selected "Charts" and then "Pedigree Chart:"

The four generation Pedigree Chart for Frederick Seaver appeared (using the settings I had saved previously - the user can change all of the settings from within the Book process):

Now I wanted to create the Ancestral Family Report (the "Ahnentafel Report" in FTM 2012 terminology), so I clicked on the "Plus" button again, selected "Genealogy Reports" from the collection list, and then highlighted the "Ahnentafel Report" in the list of reports:

I double-clicked on the "Ahnentafel Report" icon in the screen above, and after about 20 seconds, my report appeared on screen.

For four generations of ancestors, there were 33 pages of text, including the sources. Here is the last page of the report, showing the end of the sources:

I could have edited any of the functions (items to include, fonts, header/footer, page setup, etc.) and the report would be re-created.

So far, this is pretty easy, although any limitations on the charts and reports when created individually are still in the book creation process.

In the next post, I'll add a Media Item, create a Table of Contents, and an Index, and save it to a computer file.

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and four darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
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